Penne in Mushroom n Basil White Sauce

After Indian n Mexican cuisines I like Italian food a lot...especially I get attracted to the creamy texture of few pasta recipes...After seeing Cinnamon's Penne recipe, I wanted to try it with my favourite mushroom n Basil Combo...Since this's the first time I was cooking Pasta at home, I searched for a simple, quick way of preparing the pasta sauce...and I found it here

I followed the white sauce recipe as it is, added crushed garlic pods, dried basil and mushroom mix to the sauce and then the pre-cooked Penne..Here goes the recipe...

Ingredients:

Penne - 2 cups (cooked in lightly salted boiling water for 10min and drained)

Milk - 400ml

Plain flour - 1 table spoon

Butter (unsalted) - 1 table spoon

Salt and Pepper - as per taste

Crushed garlic - 1/2 tsp

Basil and Mushroom mix - 1 table spoon (dried) - fresh cut basil and boiled mushroom pieces can be substituted

Procedure:

1. Take a deep bottomed sauce pan, heat the butter in the pan and when it melts add flour and mix well. Cook for 1-2min

2. Now slowly add the milk whilst stirring continously. Let it come to boil.

3. Add the crushed garlic and mix

4. Cook on medium flame for 5-7 min, until the sauce thickens.

5. Add salt and pepper and then the dried basil n mushroom mix to this sauce. Stir continously.

6. Finally add the cooked penne, mix well and simmer for 3-5min.

Tastes great when served hot. I purchased Penne made of durum wheat which has Low GI (Glyceamic Index) and hence good for health....